musings :)

i'm finding it very difficult to type this. not due to what i'm writing, but mainly due to the fact that i have a fat kitten sprawled across my lap, who is insisting on resting his paws on my arms. and purring loudly, and swishing his tail. i love my kitten :)

so today is monday. so yesterday was sunday. if i'm honest, the passage i'm going to share wasn't even preached on last night, it was the couple of verses after, and i was GUTTED we didn't get to it. what was preached on was treasures in jars of clay, but i've already quoted that verse once in this blog :)

so here goes. 2 corinthians chapter four verses sixteen to eighteen.

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal".

this was also one of the verses of the week on my first ever beach mission, and i love it :) it's amazing how we can think we have massive troubles and issues, but they are actually light and momentary- especially compared to the glory we can look forward to!

we sang a song at the end of our service yesterday, which really connected to the sermon, and i liked it, so here's a verse. maaaaaaan, all i do is share songs!

"God is at work in us,
His purpose to perform
Building a kingdom of power not of words
Where things impossible
By faith shall me made possible
Let’s give the glory to Him now

Though we are weak
His grace is everything we need
We’re made of clay but His treasure is within
He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities
So that the glory goes to Him"

i've waffled today. my friend emma says i'm a champion waffler, and i have to agree. it's also the only exams i do well in- those i'm allowed to waffle in. so french speaking, fine. french reading/listening, not so fine :)

in a few days i'm away for two weeks, so will be going offline, over Easter as well, which is sad. But I will hopefully get chance to blog again before then :)

over and out ♥




i never understood why they say over and out, and now i've ruined the effect :/ gutted.

hmm :)

well well well :) not blogged for a while, been busy, as usual!
since the 16th february! very sorry ;)

soooo, since then. i went to the house of a friend from camp over half term- Coralie Severs :) and had a lovely time! my brother turnes 18 last week- scary stuff, he can vote?! will definitely put some pictures up :) he got "Guitar Hero" for the Xbox, which I can hear now.... i knew there was a reason he doesn't play the guitar!

got some exam results from the exams i did in january last thursday, and am over the moon with the results :) not sure how they happened though!

this monday, i went on a "doctor day" at leighton hospital, for sixth form students who are prospective medical students :) it was better than i expected actually, and i can now take blood, put gastric tubes in, perform lumber punctures and intubations...

... all on dummies!

but, to be fair, they were surprisingly realistic, and quite fun!

wanted to share a verse or two from a song that we sing in church; it's called "Above the voices of the world around me", and i love it :)

Above the voices of the world around me,
my hopes and dreams, my cares and loves and fears,
the long-awaited call of Christ has found me,
the voice of Jesus echoes in my ears:
`I gave my life to break the cords that bind you,
I rose from death to set your spirit free;
turn from your sins and put the past behind you,
take up your cross and come and follow me.'

What can I offer him who calls me to him?
Only the wastes of sin and self and shame;
a mind confused, a heart that never knew him,
a tongue unskilled at naming Jesus' Name.
Yet at your call, and hungry for your blessing,
drawn by that cross which moves a heart of stone,
now Lord I come, my tale of sin confessing,
and in repentance turn to you alone.

Lord, I believe; help now my unbelieving;
I come in faith because your promise stands.
Your word of pardon and of peace receiving,
all that I am I place within your hands.
Let me become what you shall choose to make me,
freed from the guilt and burden of my sins.
Jesus is mine, who never shall forsake me,and in his love my new-born life begins.

♥



ps. there are these little things on the bottom of this post; they remind me of "liking" facebook statuses. choose one, please? it's nice to have some feedback, i've realised there are no bad ones, so will change it now! loves.